thismorning (wednesday 1st), 7.41-7.42am, and 8.21-8.23am, on bbc radio 4

today (presented by nickrobinson and justin webb) includes …

“This is a book that alleges ‘an internatioal conspiracy of Jewish financiers’ …

He describes business as being ‘controlled by men of a single and peculiar race’.”

“The Telegraph reports that Jeremy Corbyn is embroiled in another row about anti-semitism after he’s found to have endorsed a book written in 1902, which argued that Europe’s banks and newspapers were controlled by Jews. It says that four years before he become Labour leader, he wrote a foreword to a new edition of J A Hobson’s Imperialism, A Study, which was written in 1902, in which he described the book as ‘brilliant and a great tome’. … anti-semitism in Hobson’s writings has been widely covered in historical circles. The paper notes that Labour has admitted that the text has anti-semitic elements …”

“Daniel Finkelstein’s piece in The Times tomorrow: this raises the spectre of anti-semitism within Labour, particularly pointing at Jeremy Corbyn, and the title is ‘Corbyn’s praise for deeply anti-semitic book’.”

“The disclosure that Richard Burgon described Zionists as ‘the enemies of peace’ has again reopened Labour’s gaping wound over anti-semitism, one made sharper by the fact Mr Burgon is not only the shadow justice secretary but also a close ally and supporter of Jeremy Corbyn.

His comments have provoked a furious response from leading Jewish organisations, including the British Board of Deputies, who said they encapsulated the total sham of Labour’s approach to anti-semitism.

… only last year … Mr Burgon denied making such remarks.. ‘I didn’t say that, and they couldn’t tell me when they believed I had said that, and it’s not my view’.

Tonight, the chairman of the Jewish Labour Movement, Mike Katz, wrote in protest to the party’s chief whip. Nick Brown, and said that Mr Burgon could not play at being lord-chancellor-in-waiting while making dog-whistle attacks on British Jews.”

thismorning (monday 15th), 7.21-7.26am, and 8.43-8.44am, on bbc radio 4

today (presented by justin webb and john humphrys) includes …

“And at what point, what would push you over the edge, where you would say it is not happening, what we want to happen, what we need to happen, rooting out anti-semitism, is not happening, therefore we have to take a look at having another election for leader?”